Films

That wouldn't normally be my type of film, but it's a Michael Mann film, so it's done better. It's still a very Hollywood "two big movie stars face off" film, but it's better than most of them. The scenes most fans rave about are

• De Niro and Pacino meeting for coffee
  
• The police detectives being tricked into gathering in one place so that the criminals know who they all are
  
• The shoot-out at the end of the bank robbery. Military types (and wannabees) make a particular fetish of that one because it's apparently one of the most realistic firefights in film; for a while it was shown to U.S. Marine recruits fresh out of base camp, until somebody realised that using even fictional bank robbers as training material didn't look so good.
  
  

Michael Mann's record is hardly perfect (I mean, "The Keep"), but he's done several where I was surprised how good they were compared to my expectations when I went in. If you haven't seen "Collateral", do.